President Salva Kiir lodges a protest with IGAD after the bloc's executive secretary was quoted in the media as saying Kiir and Riek Machar are stupid to think they can resolve South Sudan's crisis on the battlefield.

U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer says another $1 billion is needed to provide healthcare, food, clean water, sanitation and shelter to help millions of South Sudanese make it through the year.

President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar agree to set up a transitional government within 60 days as regional bloc IGAD threatens punitive action if they don't hold up their end of the latest peace deal for South Sudan.

UNMISS inaugurates a new "protection of civilians" facility in Malakal, capital of Upper Nile state, where, in spite of weeks of relative calm, people still do not feel it is safe enough to return home.

"The fate of South Sudanese children, who have been affected by unimaginable violations, including killings, forced recruitment, rape and abductions, is in your hands," leaders from across Africa warn President Salva Kiir and opposition leader, Riek Machar.

Counselor of the Department of State Thomas Shannon, who advises Secretary of State John Kerry on major foreign policy problems, says the two rivals made the pledge to him when he visited Juba over the weekend.

In a lengthy resignation letter, former Higher Education Minister Peter Adwok Nyaba accuses President Salva Kiir of "an inner tendency to dictatorship" and says he has turned the SPLM into an oppressive, totalitarian machine.

"I can't be in Juba while seeing people being harassed, killed by government security," says South Sudan's former head of mission to Belgium and the EU, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Francis Nazario.

June 2014

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